Legendary author Annie Proulx is to donate an early draft of her classic gay short story Brokeback Mountain to New York’s public library.
Proulx, 74, who will donate the draft along with other written pieces including numerous diaries and manuscripts said it was an “honour” to have her work housed in the world famous institution.
The early draft shows that the story, which was later adapted into an Oscar winning hot film starring the late Heath Ledger, had early working titles such as Bulldust Mountain and Swill-Swallow Mountain.
The writer who won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with novel The Shipping News noted the “odd sense of balance” in storing her work in the city, when so much of it is set in rural American locations.
Brokeback Mountain, which tells the story of two men fall in love after meeting in the Wyoming countryside, was originally published in The New Yorker in 1997.
The story was later published in book form and has since become a cult classic among gay and straight audiences alike.